Because I'm a performer...basically a singer of bistro-type songs, I've always relied on gigs to "lean on" dependable hardware...real synths like the Yamaha Motif ES-88, Triton, Karma, EPS+, Yamaha or Roland keboard synth/arrangers...even still depending on my ol' M1+ keyboard, with all the accompanying memory cards for whatever jazz or ethnic gig you may stumble upon!!

Until Real Band, I never much got interested in all the composing or midi features of BIAB whether in the realm of Analog or midi output.

My midi interest (except in Studio recordings, of course), was to "controller purposes" relating to the live background "action of hardware"--- sampled instruments, for the most part, on chips embeded within the musical hardware. Of course some of those "hardware workstation keyboard synths" are also very dependable, as well as adept at "outputting" their own great personally created/sampled sounds...!

But, as I get more and more into the very real sound "replicated" in Real Band, of real good real musicians, I find the product much more attractive...damn attractive, these days. Let me swing ... not compose...EXCEPT if I'm taking a solo or extended motif (no pun intended).

Give me a quiet gig where I can just do basically my "thing", which is the songs other people wrote...Like Sammy Kahn, Gershwin, et al. Because I'm rooted deeply in the esoceric world of jazz and what fabulous tunes and arrangement derived from their experiences and talented composing/orchestrations...

I have always...since my Dixieland days...when most everything was based on improvisation-on-a-theme....been most happy either being in the middle of a group...or, better, off on a stage by myself...Interpreting and Coalescing with the "jazz vibe" of the moment....whether "real" or real, hardware or software-based, and now with software (MP3) generated REAL SOUNDING music backing that jells so well as a "Real Band" concept!

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Yamaha...Motif ES-8, Motif Rack, CS6X
Korg...Karma,Triton Classic, PA-80, M-1+
AkaiSampler-S5000, Roland.. X5080 Rack/G-1000 Arranger
Various Guitars/Basses Amps Pedals Rec.Equip.


Plus, BIAB 2015 and Sonar Platinum 2015 Upgrade from Cakewalk's Sonar X-3